The article provides a snapshot of the vendors featured in our BYOM Marketplace.
BYOM (Bring Your Own Meeting) technology, building on the concept of BYOD (Bring Your Own Device), gives today’s companies the freedom to create truly agile meeting spaces. With BYOM technology, employees are free to use their own devices with the hardware already in their meeting room and any collaboration software.
In the age of flexible work, BYOM solutions ensure any employee can enter a meeting room, share content, and connect with colleagues without configuring built-in technology. This paves the way for more flexible ad-hoc meetings and collaborative experiences.
We’ve examined the market to bring you this list of the best BYOM solution providers enabling agile meetings in 2024.
- Barco
- DisplayNote
- BenQ Instashow
- Airtame
- Mersive
- Screenbeam
- Wolfvision
- Vivitek
- Yealink
- Kramer
Barco
Producing a host of hardware for meeting room environments, including projectors, video walls, and displays, Barco takes an intuitive approach to BYOM experiences. The company’s selection of “ClickShare” technologies empower employees to automatically connect their existing devices to a range of meeting room tools for rapid content sharing and collaboration.
Employees are free to choose between using their meeting room equipment or Barco’s all-in-one meeting solutions without compromising security or privacy. The wireless meeting room portfolio includes access to wireless conferencing technologies, video bars, and presentation tools for creative meetings and brainstorming sessions.
DisplayNote
Specializing in custom-embedded software for meeting rooms and learning spaces, DisplayNote aims to make knowledge sharing simple and more accessible. The organization’s flexible solutions support wireless screen sharing from any device on any network, intuitive call and app launching, and wireless conferencing. Team members can even rapidly broadcast content to a screen in seconds without relying on specialist hardware.
DisplayNote’s portfolio of products includes a “Launcher” app for quick access to UC and calling technology, the “Broadcast” app for screen sharing, and the “Montage” solution for wireless presentation. DisplayNote’s technologies are also equipped with enterprise-level security and privacy features.
BenQ (InstaShow)
UK-based technology vendor BenQ produces a variety of hardware solutions for meeting rooms and collaboration, including a BYOM system. The InstaShow collection of wireless presentation devices offers plug-and-play simplicity and wireless integration with various systems, including smartphones and laptops. With InstaShow, multiple presenters can share content in seconds without the need for additional drivers and software.
The solution supports split-screen presentations for collaboration and features high-level security standards like AES 128-bit encryption. BenQ’s collection of InstaShow products even comes in various configurations to suit huddle rooms, confidentially sensitive large meeting rooms, and more.
Airtame
Airtame is a hybrid conferencing solution vendor with technology compatible with Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Google, and Webex. The Airtame Hub gives employees the software they need to create customized screen-sharing experiences, digital signage, and conferencing sessions. Users can connect across all devices in seconds, wirelessly, without specialist firmware.
Airtame solutions promise high-performance conferencing experiences with low-latency video and high-quality audio. Companies can also manage their devices and screens through a centralized remote management app. Organizations can boost their sustainability footprint by setting up sleep schedules for meeting room devices.
Mersive
Mersive Technologies is responsible for the “Solstice” BYOM application. This all-in-one collaboration platform makes it easy for remote and local participants to wirelessly share content and host presentations using their own preferred technology. Solstice offers robust cloud, API-based, and hardware integrations for existing technologies.
What’s more, Mersive also gives companies access to useful insights about their meeting room spaces through built-in analytical technology. With Solstice, companies gain access to enterprise security and scalability, as well as a future-proof architecture enhanced by constant software updates. Companies can also access the Solstice Pod, a software-based appliance that supports various meeting spaces and rooms.
ScreenBeam
Supporting both enterprises and educational institutions, ScreenBeam aims to make conferencing simpler and more flexible with wireless BYOM connectivity. As a Microsoft co-engineering partner, the company fully enables access to Miracast technology. Moreover, the company’s OS-agnostic solutions can support presentations hosted on any device.
ScreenBeam’s conference utility wirelessly connects host devices to in-room peripherals in seconds. Plus, the solution provides access to various integration options for Microsoft Teams, Zoom Rooms, and more. ScreenBeam delivers a unique multi-network architecture for security, and companies can access a central IT management dashboard to help mitigate risks.
Wolfvision
Popular technology vendor Wolfvision produces meeting room kits, hardware, and software solutions for collaboration. The company’s BYOM solution is available for all the Cynap family systems in the company’s portfolio. All users need to do is toggle the Wolfvision vSolution app on their laptop or device into BYOM mode to facilitate a wireless connection to a Cynap system.
The technology rapidly aligns and connects all cameras, microphones, and speaker systems installed in a meeting room. Plus, Employees maintain access to extensive security features and can leverage various applications, from Microsoft Teams to Zoom.
Vivitek
Offering tools for wireless collaboration, digital signage, and projectors, Vivitek produces both hardware and software in the collaboration space. In 2022, the company introduced its own BYOM technology for its Novo Ecosystem solutions. This technology lets users control mainstream meeting peripherals from any device, including laptops and smartphones.
The NovoConnect wireless collaboration add-on allows any organization to extend the functionality of their meeting rooms and digital signage technologies with flexible devices. It features built-in enterprise-grade security to protect the assets you share through the cloud. Additionally, Vivitek offers its own technology for presentations, in the form of NovoStage.
Yealink
Offering companies a vast selection of hardware and endpoints for collaboration, Yealink is a well-known vendor in the BYOM space. The company’s solutions for flexible meetings include options like the RoomCast wireless presentation system. This device can connect with any existing hardware in a meeting room, as well as various popular unified communication platforms.
Yealink also produces the MVC-BYOD extender, which supports the connection between Microsoft Teams rooms and other types of UC platforms. All you need to do is plug the extender cable into a laptop, and you can start managing any meeting room environment. Plus, Yealink also offers cloud-based software for room and device management.
Kramer
Kramer AI is responsible for the VIA wireless collaboration and conferencing platform, which delivers full BYOD and BYOM flexibility. With VIA, any user can connect to a meeting room’s technology and software to share, collaborate, and engage with team members anywhere. The family of products includes solutions for any space, with built-in security for enterprise environments.
The current Via 4.0 portfolio includes the Via Connect, for enterprise-focused meetings, as well as the Via Go2 for huddle space environments, and the Via Campus2 for education. These products support wireless and remote management and control, giving organizations more power over their meeting room setup.
